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"Conventional educational strategies in combatting post-truth seem to emphasize merits of truth, evidence, and reason. Such focus misses key elements of the post-truth era. It ignores the political dynamics that engulf science as well as the antiscience campaign that is deliberately carried out and amplified in the public domain. Post-truth demands a cultural shift in science education to ensure that sociological and political contexts of science are explicitly taught and understood."
Easier and more plausible with delivery of some remedial education in relevant #SocialScience-- for the educators themselves.
#PostTruth
#Misinformation
#ScienceEducation
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adx5458?af=R
The Weizenbaum Report 2025 is now available in English. The study features key figures on political participation in Germany, showing that 2024 was a year marked by protest. At the same time, the upper middle class is retreating from social engagement.
@freieuniversitaet @WZB_Berlin @tuberlin @CAISnrw @zevedi @unipotsdam @FOKUSpublic
@ECDF @HumboldtUni #research #media #socialmedia #socialscience
Are there approaches to modelling systemic physical climate risks that are not based on neoclassical economic modelling?
Here's a podcast that I have listened to twice now, originally released in April 2022, that provides interesting insight into the personalities that are drawn to authoritarianism.
#authoritarian #authoritarianism
#humanbehaviour #socialscience
#curiosity
CBCWho's drawn to fascism? Postwar study of authoritarianism makes a comeback | CBC RadioA groundbreaking study conducted in the wake of the Second World War by a group of scholars rocked the academic world when it was published in 1950 — but fell out of favour. Now a new generation of scholars is reviving the lessons of The Authoritarian Personality to understand the politics of our time.
How do recommendation algorithms shape science content on social media? Weizenbaum scholars Clarissa Walter & Sascha Friesike have investigated this question in a two-year ethnography at a German Public Broadcast Service.
Read their paper via JCom: https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2402_2025_A02/
JCOM - Journal of Science Communication · Behind the Screens: How Algorithmic Imaginaries Shape Science Content on Social MediaBased on an ethnography of the development and production of science YouTube videos – a collaboration between a German public broadcaster and social science scholars – we identify three intermediary steps through which recommendation algorithms shape science content on social media. We argue that algorithms induce
Which structural features are important in shaping countries' vulnerability & resistance to disinformation amid democratic decline?
A #wjds paper by Antonia Peißker, Mike Cowburn, @ulrikeklinger highlights factors to consider when assessing #disinformation resilience. The paper examines countries that are experiencing various degrees of democratic backsliding, like Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.
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Oh wow that is bad!
On the up side: when submitting that as a paper to a journal, they will need to indicate that informed consent was given by the study participants. As they can't any such submission should not proceed.
At least as minimum standard for any social sciences journal. We do have clear ethic guidelines for that after all ...in theory apparently :(
“Meta’s recent changes are part of a larger shift by US tech companies to align with conservative leaders, which will have implications for global efforts towards information integrity.”
New #wjds paper by Ned Watt, Silvia Montaña-Niño, and Michelle Riedlinger:
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group .. um .. eating .. long rooted in history perhaps .. but not in our DNA methinks .. so maybe due a rethink .. coz .. well .. itza nice to mix it up a bit dontchya fink 
.. I mean a bit of a change once in a while creates new possibilities and perspectives .. it is .. ya know .. a fact, mate 
White Americans in areas with higher Black poverty more likely to attribute racial disparities to lack of effort: Study
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-white-americans-areas-higher-black.html
Phys.org · White Americans in areas with higher Black poverty more likely to attribute racial disparities to lack of effort: Study
Do commercial content moderation APIs over- or under-moderate group-targeted #HateSpeech? David Hartmann (WI & @tuberlin) takes on this question in a paper to be presented at the renowned @chi Conference.
He & his colleagues @ Hertie School, @CAISnrw & @uni_wuppertal recommend that API providers offer better guidance on API implementation & more transparency on their limitations.
More: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/lost-in-content-moderation/
Weizenbaum InstitutLost in Content ModerationDo commercial content moderation APIs over- or under-moderate group-targeted hate speech? Weizenbaum researcher David Hartmann takes on this question in a new paper that has earned him a spot at the renowned CHI 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. We spoke to him about his research.
A Better Future Depends on Reversing Class Dealignment
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/reversing-traditional-working-class-dealignment/
jacobin.comA Better Future Depends on Reversing Class DealignmentThere’s no forging a durable working-class progressive coalition without winning back the blue-collar working class.
Join us on June 4 & 5, 2025 for the 7th Weizenbaum Conference “Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies”
Register now: https://www.weizenbaum-conference.de/
#Democracy #Empowerment #Community #Power #DigitalResearch #WIConf25 #research #science #socialscience #humanities #economy #psychology
@freieuniversitaet @WZB_Berlin @FraunhoferFOKUS @unipotsdam @zevedi @CAISnrw @BerlinUAlliance
The right approach in citizen-to-citizen exchanges can change minds, even on politically divisive topics
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-approach-citizen-exchanges-minds-politically.html
Phys.org · The right approach in citizen-to-citizen exchanges can change minds, even on politically divisive topics
The ANU HASS Digital Research Hub is advertising a research software engineering position, to contribute to the Social Science Research Infrastructure Network (SSRIN) project, funded by ARDC and led by University of Queensland. It would be a great role for someone interested in computational social science and/or research software engineering.
https://jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-software-engineer-social-science-research-infrastructure-network-canberra-act-act-australia
Please circulate to your networks.
jobs.anu.edu.auResearch Software Engineer (Social Science Research Infrastructure Network) - Canberra / ACT, ACT, AustraliaClassification: ANU Officer Grade 6/7 (Specialist)Salary package: $93,646 to $107,795 per annum plus 17% superannuation
Terms: Full time, Fixed Term (up to 18 months)
Help Build National Research Infrastructure: Play a key role in shaping the future of social science research in Australia.
Strategic Involvement: Work closely with the SSRIN community and leadership to identify the skills and training needed to enable the future of national research infrastructure (RI).
Shape Core Processes: Work with the SSRIN team to integrate skills and development training into core digital infrastructure.
Strategic Vision: Contribute to both short- and long-term RI and skills development strategy.
Stakeholder Engagement:...
Avoiding your neighbor because of how they voted? Democracy needs to you talk to them instead
The ConversationAvoiding your neighbor because of how they voted? Democracy needs you to talk to them insteadThe more Americans isolate themselves from people in the other political party, the more stereotypes take over. In turn, that pushes people to isolate even more.
Diverging views of democracy fuel support for authoritarian politicians, study shows
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-diverging-views-democracy-fuel-authoritarian.html
Phys.org · Diverging views of democracy fuel support for authoritarian politicians, study shows
Did political science get central and eastern Europe wrong?
TLDR: It did, leaning too heavily towards the power of formal institutions and the incentives of rational actors, generating an optimism bias.
Much to ponder on here
EUROPP - European Politics and Policy · Did political science get Central and Eastern Europe wrong?Prior to the 2004 EU enlargement, there was widespread optimism about democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. But did political scientists get it wrong?
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One more step in the long story: unboxing the English-language book born out of this slow wander Along The Line!